When work is good
I met two of Tatjana’s longtime friends this weekend and we had the weird opportunity to work on a project together – mainly putting up the Nolli Plan that I have been moving from place to place for about 15 years. Mind you, they were coming here on vacation and had little advance knowledge that a project of this size and scope was awaiting them. It was awkward to think guests and friends were going to actually work on a project that we would be the beneficiaries of – because really who has time for other people’s projects, I ask you?
But at the end of the day, it was interesting to get to know someone from a different slant, the perspective of work and organization. With level heads and an actual level, everyone performed according to their abilities and I actually worked a power drill (which last time I did, it was a disaster), and at the end of the day we had mounted the Nolli Plan and had sealed it in museum grade plexiglass. Sort of hard to believe but there it is.
So our friends went back to cold and rainy Seattle leaving all the sunshine here in New Orleans to wait for their return, where they have earned the right to call the tree house (aka the tower) of the LaLa as their home away from home.